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The Information reports that three years ago, Musk offered Apple an 18-month exclusive connection via SpaceX in return for $5 billion up front, and $1 billion per year after that to support satellite-connected iPhone features. If Apple didn’t take it within 72 hours, he threatened to announce a competing feature.

Now that SteamOS 3.7.8 has added official support for Lenovo’s handheld gaming PC, as well as a recovery image for installation on other handhelds like the Rog Ally and original Legion Go, it’s time to find out.

As Deadline notes, the cross-platform viewer number that (HBO) Max just released for last night’s finale is down from the season premiere’s 5.3 million, but the company expects that “The audience will grow significantly due to low viewing levels over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.” According to the press release, the show’s global audience now numbers more than 90 million.

That’s gotta be a bizarre thing to wake up to, but at least it didn’t block the Suez Canal?

That was a message Akasha Song, aka Joseph Clements, shared with customers in April 2022 on the closed dark web profile pages for his DMT storefront, Shimshai, as the feds were closing in on his operation.

The Verge team has a few guesses about the first hardware release from the OpenAI and io combination. Let us know yours in the comments.

The last question during the AI fireside chat at I/O 2025 was an invitation to make headlines, and the Google co-founder did his best, saying... something about reality and our existence. Listen in for yourself.

Brin showed up to crash Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’ fireside chat at I/O 25, where he laid out what he does all day when asked by host Alex Kantrowitz.

The Google co-founder has said he was “pretty much retired right around the start of the pandemic,” but came back to the company to experience the AI revolution.